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Originally Posted by kazbates
What denotes thievery is the laws present in the society wherein the transaction took place and not public or personal opinion.
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Quite so, I should've been more generous with the <irony></irony> tags there. I don't for a moment believe that unauthorized copying (or any other means by which one may enjoy a work without compensating the author) is theft. It may or may not be criminal or legal, and it may or may not be moral/ethical/justifiable (there are just way too many variables to come up with a sane one-size-fits-all answer to the question), but it isn't, at least in most jurisdictions, theft.
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The truth is as long as it meets the laws of the land, selling the second hand book or purchasing it is legal (here in the US ~ I can't speak for other countries).
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<sarcasm>But don't you understand it's WRONG! And STEALING! And THEFT! And PIRACY! Sure it's LEGAL, but that just means we need to PASS NEW LAWS to PUT THESE WRONGDOERS IN PRISON! Or PUBLIC BEHEADINGS. Public beheadings are good. Will NOBODY think of the CHILDREN?</sarcasm>